Forgotten State of Undress - TV Tropes

Raven: You know you're naked, right?
Garfield: Huh? [looks down and covers his junk] Aah! I overslept! Was rushing. Forgot to put on my uniform. So I sleep in the nude. So what? Animals are naked! I am the entire animal kingdom crammed into a single magnificent specimen.
Raven: You're something crammed into something.

• Mr. Black: Green Star: Used as a frequent Running Gag for Black Cat's subordinate and assistant, Officer Duck, a new comic relief character who tends to stumble into action while often forgetting his pants and with his Goofy Print Underwear in full view.

• In the OVA of Black Magic M-66, a reporter named Sybil is taking a shower in her apartment. She leaves the shower but gets in such an excited state when she hears about a military plane crash on her scanner, that she grabs her camera and film and then charges through the front door out into the corridor while still naked to pursue the story. She quickly realizes she's naked in public and returns to the apartment.
• Bubblegum Crisis: In the first OVA episode, Sylia Stingray, owner of the Silky Doll lingerie shop as well as founder and leader of the vigilante group The Knight Sabers, has just gotten up for the day and is lounging around in a semi-sheer nightie when her brother, Mackie, brings her news of a job offer for the Knight Sabers. Sylia is pursuing the offer, when she realizes that her brother is looking down her cleavage. She smacks him in the face with the morning newspaper.
• Chihayafuru: Subverted. In one episode, Shinobu Wakamiya's mother asks her to answer the door when the bell rings. Shinobu comes out into the main foyer wearing a very outlandish outfit, and her mother is mortified, telling Shinobu that she didn't realize she was still in her pajamas, and she'll get the door herself. Shinobu blows past her, informing her mother, "It's fine. These are my street clothes." This only serves to further mortify the elder Wakamiya about her daughter's Impossibly Tacky Clothes.
• Dragon Ball: During the first night of their journey of collecting all Dragon Balls, Goku takes off Bulma's panties out of curiosity while she's asleep. The next morning, Goku decides to bring the Sea Turtle to the beach, and Bulma follows along with her scooter. After having traveled from her capsule house all the way to the beach and back to said capsule house, she then discovers her panties in her room and finally realizes that she's been Going Commando the entire time... after having flashed her crotch twice at the beach.
• Dr. STONE: When Ryusui is awoken from his petrification, he's too preoccupied with wanting to pay Senku to realize his clothing has rotted away due to being encased in stone for 3700 years.
• An early Running Gag in the Hetalia: Axis Powers manga was that not only does Italy Sleeps in the Nude, but he also has the occasional tendency to forget to put pants on when he wakes up.
• The King of Fighters: Destiny: Terry throws Matt butt naked out of Angelina's apartment after saving her from him. He's so distressed that he only remembers he's naked when the old lady nearby mocks his Teeny Weenie, causing him to gasp and cover himself in shame.
• Kino's Journey: Downplayed. In the first anime adaptation, a young girl hears a noise outside of her bedroom window and peaks out to greet the traveler known as Kino a good morning, before she realizes she's still in her nightgown, gives a mildly alarmed squeak, and ducks into her room to change. We learn over the course of the episode that the girl is the traveler we've come to know as Kino, taking the name for herself after the original Kino performed a Heroic Sacrifice to save her from her brainwashed family trying to kill her.
• Lucky Star: Kagami has been sick, and Miyuki is paying her a visit, when Kagami's twin sister, Tsukasa, comes into the room bleary-eyed and wishing her sister a "Good morning", before realizing they had company and ducking back out again. It starts a conversation between Miyuki and Tsukasa about the fact that the outfit she's in are her pajamas and Miyuki saying she hadn't realized, and though Tsukasa could even go outside wearing them, while Kagami can only think "Geez, someone get to the punchline, already!"
• My Dress-Up Darling: In one chapter, Gojo visits Marin at her apartment and is stunned when she answers the door in a revealing nightgown with no bra. Marin notices how flustered he is, but assumes it's because he hasn't seen her without make-up or coloured contacts before; she doesn't realize she forgot to put a bra on until Gojo's already left, and immediately shrugs it off thinking Gojo didn't notice.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: In episode 2, Shinji strips to take a bath, only to get startled by Pen-Pen. He freaks out and runs back to Misato, with a beer can (and later a tiny box of toothpicks) covering his crotch. Misato explains that Pen-Pen's just her other roommate, and then she points out to Shinji that he's naked. Shinji yelps, covers himself, and awkwardly side-steps out of the room.
• Photon: The Idiot Adventures: Keyne Aqua awakens in her rejuvenating pod and finds the diminutive Photon beside her. After kicking him out of her bed, she dons a bracelet that lets her shoot zap-bolts at him, but Photon is much too agile to be hit by them. Keyne tries punches and kicks, but still cannot harm the dodgy Photon. After escaping between her legs, Photon backs up to a wall, where Keyne makes an enraged charge at him. She succeeds only in smashing herself against the wall after Photon leap-frogged over her. Only then, seeing her reflection in the mirrored wall, does Keyne notice that she's nude. She gives a horrified shriek, and collapses to the floor, trying to hide her nipples and crotch from Photon's view.
• Pokémon the Series:
  • In the first ever episode, Ash Ketchum oversleeps on the day he is supposed to go to receive his first pokemon from Professor Oak. He rushes to Oak's lab, realising too late that he's still in his pajamas, but at least remembered to put some shoes on.
  • In the movie Pokémon: I Choose You!, Ash goes the whole hog and rushes to Oak's lab in his pajamas and bare feet.
• Princess Tutu: In "Banquet of Darkness", Ahiru shifts to her duck form in front of Fakir for the first time. When she returns from looking for a way out, he gets angry that she hid this for so long and accuses her of being "dirty" ^note . Ahiru angrily puts her Transformation Trinket back on so she can yell back at him as a human, forgetting that Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing until she notices Fakir blushing and refusing to look at her. She has a Naked Freak-Out and goes back into the water to cover up, only to forget a second time:

  Ahiru: Did you see?
  Fakir: I didn't look. [agitated] Anyway, what'd you find out? That's the first thing you should have said!
  Ahiru: [angrily stands up] But Fakir, you were...!
  Fakir: [throwing her clothes at her] DON'T STAND UP!

• Ranma ½:
  • Ranma, being under a Gender Bender curse, doesn't tend to care much about feminine modesty. During a fight with Ryōga, Ranma fails to notice that he has been turned into a girl, though he was aware (and pissed) that Ryōga had sliced his shirt earlier. However, this now presents a new problem, when Akane informs Ranma that her chest is now exposed and Ranma, for the benefit of their classmates who don't know about the curse, has to feign feminine modesty.
  • On another occasion, Ranma has been turned into a girl during his morning sparring session with his father and thinks nothing of sitting out on the Tendō porch completely topless while ringing out his shirt, to the utter shock of Sōun Tendō when he comes out to greet his family for the morning. Akane has to call Ranma out for his lack of feminine modesty in female form yet again.
• The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World: Yihdra and Red are discussing the specifics of his Emergency Kizuna Warp right after she summoned him while she was bathing. During their talk, she stands up in the bath while she had an "Eureka!" Moment, clearly forgetting Red is right there in the bathroom with her. He promptly asks her to Please Put Some Clothes On and if they can finish this conversation elsewhere.
• Rurouni Kenshin: In episode 19 of the original anime, the group is visiting a local hot spring. Kenshin has a "Eureka!" Moment and rushes to the girl's side to talk about it, forgetting that he's completely naked and they only have Modesty Towels on. He only notices his mistake due to Kaoru Luminescent Blush and Megumi ogling him.

  Megumi: You're certainly well-built, Sir Ken!

• Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception: In the anime, Kuon senses someone is peeping on her while she bathed and chases after them without bothering to put anything on. She only realizes she's running around naked when Haku comes to investigate the commotion and snarks about her nudity, causing her to blush and have a Naked Freak-Out.

• Catwoman: When in Rome: In issue #5, Selina has an Erotic Dream with Batman but wakes up in fright when she realizes she's actually been making out with Riddler who sneaked up on her at night. She promptly kicks him off the ship they're in and stays at the deck to talk with Blonde while she watches Riddler struggle not to drown. Eventually the Blonde has to point out that the only thing she's wearing is a pair of Black Bra and Panties since she didn't bother to get dressed before dealing with Riddler, and she rushes back to her room to get dressed.
• X-Men: In Sam / Cannonball's younger days, his tendency to leap into action without thinking led to many instances of him flying off after bad guys without stopping to get properly dressed and on one occasion he went blasting off wearing nothing but a Modesty Towel that, inevitably, blew away, to the delight of female onlookers below.

• Garfield:

• Didn't Expect That: Kanril Eleya wakes up out of a sound sleep to discover Section 31 agent Franklin Drake in her easy chair across the room and gets through attempting to shoot him (he took the power pack out of her phaser), throwing the phaser at him on general principles, and then yelling at him for sedating her husband in bed next to her so he wouldn't wake up and interrupt them before he finally manages to get an opening to ask her to Please Put Some Clothes On (since she habitually Sleeps in the Nude).
• If Wishes Were Ponies...:
  • Justified and a Running Gag. Because the Equestrians are ponies and don't have anything against nudity, Harry has to repeatedly remind his pony Family of Choice that they need to wear clothes. By the sequel (to his relief), the Mane Six and Cutie Mark Crusaders have gotten used to wearing clothes when in human form. However, the other Equestrian students who attend in Harry's second year were not given this lesson, which results in two-thirds of the Hogwarts First-Year class leaving their bedrooms totally naked.
  • Later, when Hermione learns that, thanks to Discord, she and the Weasleys are not human with pony animagus forms, but ponies with human animagus forms, she tests out if she can change from unicorn to human while in Equestria. It works, but she had forgotten that she left her clothes behind when crossing the portal, and thus has a Naked Freak-Out.

• Justice League vs. Teen Titans: Garfield Sleeps in the Nude and in one scene has him forgetting to get dressed before heading to train in his animal form, and ends up exposing himself to Raven when the training is over and he shifts back, only noticing his nudity when she snarks about it.
• The LEGO Movie: When Emmett's going through his morning routine, one of the steps is to wear clothes. He then proceeds to step outside completely naked before realizing he forgot that step and runs back inside to dress.
• Also double subverted in Mickey's Christmas Carol. After his conversion, Scrooge is so excited to go out and make amends that he leaves while still in his nightgown. He runs back up, realizing "I can't go out like this!" He picks up his cane and says, "There, that's better."
• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol: Double subverted. Ebenezer Scrooge, as played by nearsighted Mr. Magoo, starts to leave the house in his nightgown because he is so overjoyed that he gets a second chance to make things right. He seems to catch himself and goes back to get properly dressed, only to come out still in his nightgown, but now with a hat.

• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Bert, about to take a shower, comes up to Ernie wearing nothing but a towel and shower cap, to ask where the soap is. He gets distracted by the viewers and thus forgets that he's practically naked until Ernie asks him to put some clothes on, to which he screams.
• Bring It On: The film opening ends with Torrance doing the big finishing acrobatic for the cheerleader team, with her ending up losing her top by accident. She only realizes she's topless in front of the student body when they start hooting and laughing. Torrance begins a Naked Freak-Out until she awakens from this Catapult Nightmare.
• The Cabin in the Woods: In the introduction to the main characters, Dana is in her underwear and listening to music. Jules and Curt come in and speak to her, Curt suggests a book for her to read before pointing out how she's not wearing pants. Then Dana realizes she's still in her underwear and rushes to cover herself.
• In Carry On at Your Convenience, Agatha Spanner is midway through a game of strip poker with Mr. Coote when her son Vic comes home missing his trousers. She begins scolding him for it, only for Vic to turn it back on her that she's standing in the middle of the hallway in just her slip. Cue the Naked Freak-Out.
• Electra Glide in Blue: Wintergreen is so excited after getting promoted to homicide detective, that he quickly puts on his new suit and hurries off to work without realizing he forgot to put on his pants, but notices before he goes out the front porch.
• Entrapment: When Mac sneaks inside Gin's hotel room at night, she's so preoccupied by his intrusion that she forgets she Sleeps in the Nude and sits up in bed to confront him. She only realizes she's exposing herself when he says he doesn't trust "naked women", prompting her to cover herself with a Modesty Bedsheet.
• Galaxy Quest: The morning after the convention, the Thermians arrive at Jason Nesmith's home to collect him for his mission. He is hungover and groggy, and barely remembers what is required of him, but realises he is bottomless partway through the conversation.

  Jason: Heh, maybe I should get some pants on, hmm? Come on in.

• Home Alone 3: While reassuring Alex that everything's going to be alright, his father nearly leaves for his business trip without his pants (which he'd been ironing). Luckily, Alex (after a bit of teasing) points out to him his wardrobe malfunction.
• The Idle Class: The Forgetful Jones aristocrat dressed up to meet his wife, but forgets to put his pants on. He strolls out into the lobby Pants-Free and only notices his state of undress when he enters a phone booth and looks down, leaving him stuck there for a bit.
• The Librarian: In the original made-for-tv movie Quest for the Spear, after Flynn and Nicole sleep together, he wakes up alone, naked except for socks, and wrapped in a sheet. Realizing she's not there, he hurriedly wraps it around himself somewhat like a toga and rushes to the lobby looking for her. When other guests stare at him, he says, "What's the matter? Haven't you guys ever seen a naked man in a sheet before?" Judson then appears on the lobby TV screen and gives him information that sends him running toward the exit. Realizing his faux pas, he stops and walks back toward his room mumbling, "Clothes, I need clothes."
• In My Bloody Valentine 3D, Irene follows Frank outside, stark naked and mad as Hell, to hold him at gunpoint for secretly filming her while they had sex then tossing her a dollar. Frank's less than impressed, as he knows the gun's not loaded... and she throws it in his face. It's then the Miner sets on them.
• Le Nom des gens: The extremely scatterbrained character Bahia Benmahmoud completely forgets that isn't dressed while on the phone with someone, and walks out of her home and boards the subway before noticing that she's wearing nothing but a pair of boots.

• Adrian Mole: Downplayed in Secret Diary. Soon after his mother has walked out, Adrian wears one red and one green sock to school without noticing it. He writes in his diary that he is in a mental state and must pull himself together, saying he could end up in a lunatic asylum.
• De Architectura, by the Roman engineer and historian Vitruvius, claims that the Greek polymath Archimedes was trying to determine the purity of the gold in his master's new crown, and had the trope naming "Eureka!" Moment to test the crown's displacement when he got into his bathtub and it overflowed. He then ran through the street back to the palace to tell about his discovery, not realizing he'd forgotten to get dressed first. This story is generally believed to be apocryphal.
• Discworld: In Night Watch, a magical storm causes Archancellor Ridcully's bathtub to be catapulted outside, still containing the Archchancellor. He stands and demands to know what's going on until Beleaguered Assistant Ponder Stibbons has to inform him of his state of undress. Ridcully only actually wises up when he realizes there are women watching and uses Stibbons' hat as Hand-or-Object Underwear.
• Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy spends the entire run wearing a dressing gown, as it's what he's wearing at the start of the first novel, and he hasn't had a chance to get dressed properly by the time Ford Prefect whisks him away before the Earth's blown up. While he certainly notices at some point, humans are rare enough outside of Earth (especially after its destruction) that he hasn't got much need to get a new outfit.
• Horatio Hornblower: In Commodore Hornblower, Hornblower is taking his deck-pump shower when a ship is sighted. He immediately takes charge of the situation, forgetting that he's completely nude until the end when the ship is revealed to be a captured English merchantman with the prize captain running a bluff in an attempt to escape recapture.

  Hornblower: And now I'll get some clothes on, by God.

• Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World: Mismis was once enjoying her hot shower so much she forgot she was showing in the barracks and walked out naked from the stall right in front of her subordinates, but it doesn't take long for her to realize her mistake once she sees them staring. She's so mortified she thinks she tells Iska he now needs to take responsibility and marry her.
• Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Cassie's nightmare in the fourth book involves her going halfway through a presentation before realizing she's not wearing anything.

  she'd been about to make a presentation for her final exam at the Moon Temple's seminary, only to realize halfway through that she was completely naked. When she'd turned to run and hide, everyone had seen the bunny-tail right over her royal bottom, and had laughed even harder.

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms: On a few occasions, characters are described as being so eager or happy to meet with a new arrival they rush out without putting on their shoes. This is a big deal in East Asian culture, where taking off one's shoes before entering a house is very important (and a saying in Japanese roughly translates to "You enter my castle with your shoes on!", meaning they've been gravely insulted). For the person being met, this is a great honour because it suggests the one rushing to meet them was so happy that they even forgot something as basic and as important as putting on their shoes. One of the most famous examples is Cao Cao rushing to meet Xu You during the Guandu campaign against Yuan Shao.
• Sky Wizards Academy: Yuri gets undressed and put to bed after getting heavily injured after her battle with the hooded stranger, but she fails to realize this when she wakes up, sitting up to talk to Kanata without noticing she's flashing him since the Modesty Bedsheet that was covering her pooled at her waist. She only realizes something is up due to the E601 girls freaking out, with some rushing to cover Kanata's eyes, causing Yuri to have Naked Freak-Out.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: The Cersei chapters for A Feast for Crows begin with her having a dream where she sitting on the Iron Thrones while everyone pays her homage. But then Tyrion shows up and starts to mock her, which is when she realizes she's in a "Not Wearing Pants" Dream because she's not wearing her dress. The ensuing hurry to cover herself makes her injure herself on the barbs of the Iron Throne.
• Sword of Truth: Blood of the Fold starts with the Sisters of the Dark who fled in the previous book attempt to commune with The Keeper in their sleep while naked. They are so disturbed by the results that they rush out onto the deck to order that the ship be turned around. Then they realize that they are naked and surrounded by Horny Sailors. With them being powerful sorceresses, neither side ends up pleased with the results.
• Tress of the Emerald Sea: At the end, Charlie walks onto the ship's deck in public wearing nothing but a tiny pirate hat, having just regained his true form after being trapped in a rat's body for so long that he forgot about clothes entirely.

  "That is going to take getting used to. Um...excuse me."

• The Worst Thing About My Sister: When Melissa is knocked unconscious, her family rushes her to the hospital, and in the commotion, her sister Marty forgets that she's in her pajamas until someone at the hospital calls her "Pyjama Queen".

• Babylon 5: In the teaser of the episode "Sic Transit Vir", Ivanova goes on duty in the bridge while completely naked because she forgot to get dressed, and she goes about her business ordering people around for a while until she notices the weird stares she's getting and it's revealed she's having a nightmare. When she mentions it to Sheridan the morning after, she describes it as going "totally... unprepared for my work".
• Beverly Hills, 90210: One episode has Andrea having a Not Wearing Pants dream where she goes to school wearing only her glasses, with a sequence where she walks down the hall and only realizes she's naked due to the stares and laughs she's getting.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In "White Whale", the Cold Open has Hitchcock come into work ranting about New Yorkers disrespecting cops because nobody would make eye contact with him when he got his morning coffee. Then Jake points out that his penis is hanging out of his pants. Hitchcock's response is, "Oh! That's a relief."
• Doctor Who: "The Beast Below". At the end of the previous episode, The Doctor had shown up to collect Amy Pond and finally take her on the adventure he'd promised her when she was a child. They end up on Starship U.K.

  The Doctor: What's wrong with this picture?
  Amy Pond: Is it... the bicycles? Bit unusual on a spaceship, bicycles.
  The Doctor: Says the girl in the nighty.
  Amy Pond: Oh my God, I'm in my nighty!

• Eureka The episode "Noche de Suenos" starts with Carter doing his daily routine while walking about town completely naked and oblivious, while everyone around him gives him weird stares. It's only when Allison points it out that he notices it, and it's revealed he was in a "Not Wearing Pants" Dream. But when he does go by his daily routine for real (and clothed) he notices everyone's acting weird with him and he realizes everyone in town had the same dream and thus they all did actually see him naked, including his daughter who is very disturbed by it.
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: When Vivian has a false alarm with her pregnancy, Uncle Phil runs around the house trying to wake everyone up... having forgotten that he's totally naked. While the audience doesn't see anything, Will implies that it was traumatic.
• M*A*S*H: Inverted in "Deal Me Out" has a patient suffering from battle fatigue (played by John Ritter) grab a gun to go confront Maj. Burns, who had indicated that he wanted to send the patient back to the front as soon as he was well. He catches Burns in the camp's shower, then notices his state of undress.

  Patient: Hey, you got no clothes on.
  Burns: Well... I like to take them off when I have a shower.

• The Orville: At the start of the third season, Lieutenant Commander LaMarr has a "Eureka!" Moment right after he's had a romantic evening with a lady friend. He remembers to put a robe on, but he basically runs to his lab totally naked.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World: In the episode "Stone Cold", Marguerite, Roxton, Malone, and Veronica get possessed when they put on the clothes that they found in a haunted castle. When Challenger performs the ritual to get rid of the haunted castle, the clothes vanish too, leaving them all naked in the jungle. But they don't realize their clothes vanish until Challenger points it out to them, causing them all to scramble to hide in the bushes while Marguerite orders Challenger to go get them some clothing.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Dr. Bashir, I Presume", Dr. Zimmerman calls on Leeta as she is getting out of the shower. He tells her she's been offered a job as the manager of a cafe on another station. She's so happy that when she comes out to talk to him, she forgets her Modesty Towel and only notices her nudity when she notices he's staring. She quickly grabs the flowers he got her to cover herself before scurrying away to get dressed.
  • Star Trek: Voyager: In "Scientific Method", Capt. Janeway is being given a Miserable Massage by the EMH, while she's wearing nothing but a Modesty Towel. She gets called to the bridge and almost goes in her towel before the EMH points out she needs to get dressed.
• Three Kingdoms: Invoked by Cao Cao during the Guandu campaign against Yuan Shao when Xu You arrives at his camp. Xu You, an advisor of Yuan Shao's, has fallen out of favour and so fled to Cao, his childhood friend, for help. Cao is so pleased to hear of Xu's arrival he rushes out to meet him without even putting on his shoes, and Xu is immensely honoured when he notices. This was recorded as actually having happened historically.
• Titans: In "Together", Garfield ends up naked after shifting back into his human form and doesn't realize it until he notices Rachel politely averting her eyes to point this out and Kory giggling at him. Cue Garfield bashfully noticing his nudity and scurrying off to get his clothes back on.
• Travelers: Marcy Warton is a Librarian with brain abnormalities. After Traveler 3569 takes over Marcy, she experiences the differences in her own mental faculties and those of her host as moments of confusion and distractedness. This results several times in her answering the door completely naked, having not realised she forgot to get dressed.

• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: When Ichiban regains consciousness on the beach in Hawaii after being robbed by Chitose, he is too busy regaining his bearings to notice that he is completely naked and was a victim of Undressing the Unconscious. It takes him being seen by a scandalized woman who calls him a streaker (in English, which he doesn't understand), being commented on by other (male) beachgoers (also in English), and finally having an elderly lady point it out for him to finally realize that he is naked and reacts appropriately.
• Valkyria Chronicles 4: During the Hot Springs Episode, Riley is soaking in the hot springs while the boys wait for the turn outside, but gets so furious when overhearing the Imperial Guys talking shit about women that she leaps out of the water to scold them, not realizing she is giving everyone a full-frontal eyeful until she notices the stares and Minerva frantically trying to cover Riley's bits with her hands. She has a massive Naked Freak-Out once she realizes her mistake.

• Higurashi: When They Cry: In Kotohogushi-hen, Hanyu was taking a Waterfall Shower when she heard a man (Riku) being chased by a bear. She leaped to his defense without a thought for modesty and saved him by killing the fear on a Full-Frontal Assault. It was only after she noticed Riku staring at her while blushing that she remembered her nudity and she leaped back into the water in mortification. She actually considered wiping his memory, both because he saw her naked and because he saw her oni horns, but decided against it.
• Steins;Gate: Load Region of Déjà vu: While at her apartment, Makise has an "Eureka!" Moment to find out what caused Okabe's disappearance and quickly rushes out of her room before realizing she's still in her nighttime outfit and embarrassingly heads back to get her proper clothes.

• Gossip City: In "My sister was having an "affair" with my husband, who was already dead....", when Kaori calls her sister Alisa to gloat about having slept with the latter's husband Kazuyuki, her supposed victim reveals that he died as she wanted, complete with showing her the funeral through video call. This scared the crap out of Kaori and sent her running out of the love hotel stark-naked thinking the man she slept with was a ghost, which got her arrested for public indecency; she became a shut-in after realizing what she did. To add insult to injury, the "ghost" was Kazuyuki's delinquent twin brother.

• El Goonish Shive: Grace is a shapeshifter who can shift into several furry forms and even a full squirrel form. She starts out as an Innocent Fanservice Girl who would be completely oblivious about her nakedness when transforming back into human form. Later in the series, she became more aware of the social taboo around nakedness, but even then when she has her guard down (i.e. is around people she trusts) or gets distracted/excited, she can still change back into her human form and completely forget she isn't wearing any clothes.
• Flaky Pastry: Subverted and inverted in this strip. Nitrine's cousins wake Zintiel up in the middle of the night, and Marelle chastises her for walking around in her lingerie while there are guests in the house. Zintiel hadn't realized she was and says that she must've forgotten to take them off before going to bed.
• Girl Genius:
• Out-of-Placers: When Kass starts having a panic attack in the middle of the night, Isher runs to his room to try and comfort him. Afterwards, Lopin comments that she must be a great friend to have come to him without even putting on clothes first, which Isher hadn't realized.

  Isher: ...Oh no. Ohhhh no. I must've passed... five guards...

• Questionable Content: One strip had Hannelore walk all the way to the coffee shop Pants-Free because she forgot to put them on thanks to a recent change in her anti-anxiety medication leaving her scatter-brained. She only realizes it after the girls point it out.

  Hannelore: No wonder all those cars were honking at me. Man, this medication is GREAT. I'm barely even mortified!

• In "Daniel Goes to the Hospital" from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Daniel is excited to go home from the hospital after his operation. Mom Tiger reminds him that he might want to get dressed first, in something other than his hospital gown, before leaving.
• Family Guy: In The Simpsons Guy, (a Crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy), several people (including 2 little girls) are too distracted by Homer and Peter's Giant Chicken fight to realise said fight just caused a nuclear blast that disengrated their clothes, leaving them naked in public.
• Futurama: In "That Darn Katz", Amy arrives late for her doctrinal hearing, arms laden with all her papers. Just as she mentions that this is like a terrible dream, she drops the papers and suddenly realizes that she rushed out of her apartment in her underwear. Professor Farnsworth gives her his lab coat to cover up.
• Johnny Bravo: One of the shorts features Johnny walking out of his house, convinced that it's going to be a great day. His mother then calls to him, saying that he forgot to put on his pants.

  Johnny: Huh... thought it felt a bit drafty...

• In Miraculous Ladybug, it's a Running Gag that Marinette keeps almost leaving the house in her pajamas.
• The Simpsons:
  • In the episode "Marge in Chains", one scene during Marge's trial reveals that lawyer Lionel Hutz apparently forgot to put on pants (and underwear). He somehow didn't realize this until it was pointed out to him. Five-Second Foreshadowed by the jury looking down.

    Judge Snyder: Mr. Hutz, do you know you're not wearing any pants?
    [Reveal Shot of Lionel being Pants-Free as he looks down]
    Lionel: AUGH!

  • In "Brother from the Same Planet", Homer finally remembers to pick Bart up from soccer practice (several hours late) while he's in the bathtub, leading to him dashing out of the house without bothering to put clothes on first. Fortunately, he's dressed when he gets there.

    Lisa: Dad, hide your shame!
    Ned: [offscreen] Hey, Homie, I can see your doodle!
    Homer: Shut up, Flanders.

• Stōked: In "All We Are Saying is Give Reef a Chance", Emma gets wiped out while surfing and loses both halves of her swimsuit. But she swims back to the surface to talk to Fin and doesn't notice anything is amiss until Fin points at Emma's swimwear floating in the water, causing Emma to finally realize why the surfers around her are laughing and hooting at her.